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John A. Saliba S.J. has been a Jesuit priest for 30 years, and since 1987 has been Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he has taught since 1970.He was involved in the recent compilation of a three-year study of new religious movements conducted for the Vatican by the International Federation of Catholic Universities.
He is known for two major bibliographies on the new religious movements: Psychiatry and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1987) and Social Science and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1990).
He has also recently published Perspectives on New Religious Movements (Geoffery Chapman, 1995).

John A. Saliba S.J. has been a Jesuit priest for 30 years, and since 1987 has been Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he has taught since 1970.He was involved in the recent compilation of a three-year study of new religious movements conducted for the Vatican by the International Federation of Catholic Universities.
He is known for two major bibliographies on the new religious movements: Psychiatry and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1987) and Social Science and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1990).
He has also recently published Perspectives on New Religious Movements (Geoffery Chapman, 1995).

John Saliba, a Roman Catholic priest and professor of religious science at the University of Detroit Mercy, used an analogy to illustrate the point for the ACLU town hall forum participants.

He said a scientist observing a man walking down the street can use any number of scientific disciplines to explain how that is occurring on a physiological level.The scientist can never use the same methods to explain why the man is walking down the street, however, because this touches on other forms of inquiry, such as philosophy.

"I don't see any real confl ict between religion and science, unless religion tries to do science, or - the other way around - science tries to do religion."Saliba said.

Father Saliba is a Catholic priest and a member of the Jesuit order.He is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit, specializing in the anthropology of religion.He has written four books, including: 'Homo Religious' in Mircea Eliade: An Anthropological Evaluation; Psychiatry and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography; and Social Science and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography.
He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Religion of the Catholic University in Washington.